Tag: experience

I don’t understand the mindset you’d have to be in to want a baby. Or the mind set you’d need to have, to kill someone or go to a prostitute, or to want to jump out of a plane for extreme sport, or what it’s like to be schizophrenic, or be on LSD, or be a rock star, a nurse, or to have been a Jew in Nazi Germany. I have no idea what it feels like to be homeless, an extrovert, a man, black, old, disabled, and it goes on for infinity.

We often hear about how various groups of people are oppressed, and that some of these groups are more oppressed than others. This is sometimes called the ‘oppression olympics’. But how can we compare and measure oppression? The labels of experience are endless and we’re all totally unique in the way we view our world, interpret it, and experience it.

There are as many ways of viewing the world as there are people. We can sometimes relate to one another, but we can’t KNOW what it’s like to be a particular person, unless you are that person. And we can’t KNOW what it’s like to have a particular experience, until you experience it yourself. Even then, you’ll experience it through YOUR mind, not anyone else’s, so it’s interpreted in a unique way.

Trying to imagine what others experience can help you find compassion and empathy for people. Judgement, on the other hand, could lead to discrimination, division, even hate and war. In my opinion.

Stuff to remember:

Don’t judge what you don’t understand. (Easy to say it, hard to live it.)

Everyone is unique.

Everyone struggles throughout their life.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

You can’t compare experiences or points of view.

No one can read your mind.

Hey, I could be wrong, just my thoughts.

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Authenticity matters, be your true self. I would love to see a world where people and companies were more authentic, genuine, generous, true to themselves and use their strengths. “When we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress, goes up.”

What is the point in lying, not being genuine, not using your strengths and spending most of your life working towards something of only monetary value – what if that doesn’t fulfill you? I sure don’t want to die, the richest in the graveyard unless its rich in experiences and meaningful connections.

“I woke up and I suddenly got it, I understood suddenly how thought was just an illusionary thing and how thought is responsible for if not all, most of the suffering we experience. And then I suddenly felt like I was looking at these thoughts from another perspective and I wondered who is it, that’s aware that I’m thinking.”

It sounds like he experienced what some call ‘enlightenment’ but only briefly. What if thoughts and who we think we are, are just a constructed illusion made by the mind? hard to imagine when you’ve grown up thinking you are you and this is it but imagine the suffering it could relieve you from.